This week, the teams had spare time to prepare for the first big presentation of the semester. There were a couple of issues that needed to be solved with the whole 12th-scale team. The main source of communication, which is an online chat website called Slack, was established between the whole 12th-scale team. Everyone established that the teams needed to communicate due to the many components of the whole 12th-scale Spartan Superway Project. My team, the 12th-scale track team, talked about some of the design specifications that the bogey team since they are the main team that the track team will be collaborating with. The remainder of the time, the track team spent time gathering contact information and information about everyone's preliminary designs and working on the presentation for next week.
Last week, I ground down the welded support parts that attach to the track. I finished 20 of these parts and it required a lot of patience since grinding down steel requires some time. I even had a collet for the Dremel tool break on me since the diamond tip Dremel-bit pushed the collet to open up throughout the duration of the grinding process. By trying to close up the collet to secure the bit, one of the collet's prongs broke. After these parts were completed, I started drilling holes into them to ensure that they would fit into the whole track assembly smoothly. I used the drill press and some of the brackets that Kevin finished printing. The end result of these components looks like the following image: After the support structures were put together, we assembled the track fully for the first time. Although it was a small assembly that reduced the length of the track, due to removing several straights, it allowed for the other subteams to test the bogey and controls....
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